For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Barnaby Crowcroft

From the September 2023 Issue

Things Fall Apart

Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain

By Charlotte Lydia Riley

From the May 2023 Issue

On the Polo Fields of Egypt

A Cultural History of the British Empire

By John M MacKenzie

From the December 2022 Issue

When African Royalty Went Dog Racing

Emirs in London: Subaltern Travel and Nigeria’s Modernity

By Moses E Ochonu

From the August 2022 Issue

Drills & Spills

A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War

By Keith Fisher

From the July 2022 Issue

Full of Gas

Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth

By John McManus

From the May 2021 Issue

Professor of Protest

Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said

By Timothy Brennan

From the October 2020 Issue

It’s a Tough Neighbourhood

The Origins of the Arab–Iranian Conflict: Nationalism & Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars

By Chelsi Mueller

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East

By Kim Ghattas

From the December 2019 Issue

Sanctioned by Sharia?

Slavery & Islam

By Jonathan A C Brown

From the February 2019 Issue

Caravans & Cat Skins

The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages

By François-Xavier Fauvelle (Translated by Troy Tice)

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

By Toby Green